Christian worshippers killed in gun and bomb attacks on services

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Relatives of victims of a gun attack mourn at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Nigeria’s northern city of KanoReuters

Cindy WockerAbuja

Last updated at 12:01AM, April 30 2012

At least 25 people were killed yesterday in attacks on Christian worshippers
holding Sunday services in Nigeria.

Two men launched bomb and gun raids on the campus of one of the most
prestigious universities in the country, killing at least 20, and five
people, including a pastor, were killed in a church in Maiduguri,
northeastern Nigeria, the spiritual home of the radical Islamist sect Boko
Haram.

Two Catholic masses were under way at Bayero University in Kano, northern
Nigeria — one in a theatre and another outdoors — when gunmen threw homemade
bombs in soft drink cans into the congregations, and then